Senile Phrases

Phrases

• Age old
• Any old how
• Arsenic And Old Lace (Cary Grant movie)
• As old as Methuselah
• As old as the hills
• As tough as old boots
• Boring old fart
• Busy old fool, unruly sun (from a poem by John Donne)
• Chip off the old block
• Dirty old man
• Don't put new wine into old bottles
• For old times' sake
• Give it the old college try
• Good old boys
• Good old times
• Grand old man
• Grumpy Old Men (Jack Lemmon / Walter Matthau movie)
• High old time
• I grow old, I grow old, I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled (from a poem by Eliot)
• If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself (Albert Einstein quotation)
• In days of old when knights were bold
• It's raining, it's pouring, the old man is snoring
• Make old bones
• Money for old rope
• Monstrous carbuncle on the face of an old friend (Prince Charles quotation)
• My old Dutch (Cockney rhyming slang for duchess)
• My old china (Cockney rhyming slang for mate)
• My old man
• New wine in old bottles
• Not a cough in a carload (Old Gold Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• Old Aches and Pains (Nickname of Luke Appling)
• Old Blue Eyes (Nickname of Frank Sinatra)
• Old Hickory (Nickname of Andrew Jackson)
• Old Hunker
• Old King Cole was a merry old soul, and a merry old soul was he (line from nursery rhyme)
• Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to get her poor doggie a bone (line from nursery rhyme)
• Old Red Eyes (Nickname of Alice Cooper)
• Old Stoneface (Nickname of Buster Keaton)
• Old banger
• Old before your time
• Old chestnut
• Old codger
• Old enough to be your mother
• Old fashioned look
• Old fogey
• Old goat
• Old habits die hard
• Old hat
• Old head on young shoulders
• Old lag
• Old lang syne
• Old maid
• Old master
• Old money
• Old reliable
• Old salt
• Old school
• Old school tie
• Old soak
• Old soldiers never die, they just fade away
• Old stand-by
• Old sweat
• Old trout
• Old wives' tale
• Out with the old in with the new
• Play the old soldier
• Ring out the old and ring in the new
• Same old same old
• Same old story
• Should old acquaintance be forgot
• Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue
• The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place (Sherlock Holmes story)
• The Grand old Duke of York he had ten thousand men (line from nursery rhyme)
• The Old Bill
• The Old Groaner (Nickname of Bing Crosby)
• The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street (Nickname of The Bank of England)
• The Old Man And The Sea (Spencer Tracy movie)
• The Old Mongoose (Nickname of Archie Moore)
• The Old Pretender (Nickname of James Stuart)
• The Old Pueblo (Nickname of Tucson Arizona)
• The Same Old Song (Four Tops song)
• The good old days
• The mark of a man (Old Spice aftershave advertising slogan)
• The old ball and chain
• The old country
• The old lie: Dulce et Decorum Est (from a poem by Owen)
• The thrill of Roses Spiced with excitement Speaking of love (Old Spice advertising slogan)
• There was an old woman who lived in a shoe (line from nursery rhyme)
• There's life in the old dog yet
• There's many a good tune played on an old fiddle
• There's many a good tune played on an old piano
• There's no fool like an old fool
• Up to your old tricks
• We make money the old fashioned way, we earn it (Smith Barney advertising slogan)
• We're tobacco men not medicine men. Old Gold cures just one thing. The World's Best Tobacco (Old Gold Cigarettes advertising slogan)
• When I am an old woman I shall wear purple (from a poem by Joseph)
• Winter drawers on (old British euphemistic joke)
• You are never too old to learn
• You can't teach an old dog new tricks
• You dirty old man (A catchphrase from Steptoe and Son)
• You've made an old man very happy